Michael McGovern > Ropes & Gray LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Michael McGovern
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Michael McGovern, co-chair of the firm’s government enforcement practice, has over 25 years of experience representing domestic and multinational corporations, board committees and their officers, directors and other executives in complex criminal and civil enforcement and litigation matters. Michael is also an accomplished criminal trial lawyer, having tried numerous federal cases across the country to verdict. He has successfully defended clients in a wide variety of high-profile and sensitive matters involving allegations of securities and commodities fraud, other types of financial fraud, domestic and foreign corruption, antitrust offenses, tax offenses, and health care fraud.
Career
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Michael served for over seven years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he held supervisory positions in both the Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit and the General Crimes Unit. In those capacities, he supervised groups of more than 20 Assistant U.S. Attorneys in grand jury investigations and prosecutions of complex securities fraud, money laundering, terrorism, and RICO cases. Michael also argued more than a dozen appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2004, Michael received the Department of Justice’s award for superior performance as an Assistant United States Attorney.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
(Leading lawyers: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals)Ropes & Gray LLP has a team of highly experienced litigators and white-collar defense attorneys who regularly advise on matters relating to public corruption, antitrust laws, economic sanctions, and financial crimes. Chicago-based Laura Hoey as well as Boston-based John Bueker are both recommended for their expertise in handling false claim cases. The firm also has a strong team located in New York, which includes Gregg Weiner, Christopher Conniff, and Michael McGovern. Weiner has an expertise in federal securities laws, while McGovern is recommended for cases concerning tax offenses, financial fraud, and antitrust violations. Conniff frequently advises clients who are under investigation for money laundering and FCPA offences; he also assists corporates on compliance requirements and crisis management. Practicing out of the firm’s office in Washington DC, María González Calvet and Alexandre Rene are further standout lawyers, both of whom are noted for their experience handling cross-border investigations. Experienced trial lawyer Sarah Walters joined the Boston office in April 2024 from a previous position at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
United States > Antitrust > Cartel
With an experienced team that includes several former federal prosecutors and enforcement attorneys from different government agencies such as DOJ, FTC, and US Attorney’s Offices nationwide, Ropes & Gray LLP has a full-service cartel practice that offers vast experience in criminal and civil investigations and follow-up civil litigation, internal investigations, and merger clearance in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals and financial services segments. The team is jointly steered by New York’s Michael McGovern, a trial lawyer specializing in high-stakes criminal cases that threaten the survival of companies, and Mark Popofsky, who regularly defends clients in jury trials, class actions, arbitrations and appeals before federal and state courts. Popofsky splits his time between Washington DC and San Francisco, as does Chong Park, whose broad practice extends to acting as first chair in jury trials and federal and state courts, as well as advising on government enforcement actions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Cartel United States > Antitrust
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism